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  • GP practice

Belmont Health Centre Also known as Dr J Wijeratne & Parnters

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

516 Kenton Lane, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 7LT (020) 8863 6863

Provided and run by:
Belmont Health Centre

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Background to this inspection

Updated 20 July 2018

Belmont Health Centre is located at 512 Kenton Lane in Harrow, London. The practice has a branch surgery located at 252 Long Elmes, Harrow, HA3 6LF. The main surgery building in Kenton Lane has a ramp access and the reception, one treatment room and seven consultation rooms, with additional rooms for phlebotomy and chronic disease management, are all located on the ground floor. There are two other surgeries and a walk-in centre located in the same building. The branch surgery at Long Elmes was also visited as part of this inspection. The practice website can be found at

The practice patient list is approximately 12,979 patients’ including a number of patients in a local residential and nursing home. The practice had a deprivation score of 17%, when compared to the CCG average of 15% and the national average of 28%. The practice has an ethnically diverse population and includes a higher than average proportion of patients aged under 18 and a lower proportion of patients aged over 75.

The practice is open between 8am and 6.30pm on Monday to Friday. Extended hours are offered between 6.30pm and 8pm on Tuesday and between 9am and 12pm on Saturday. Outside of these hours, patients are redirected to their out of hours provider, Care UK.

The practice team comprises eight GP partners (four male and four female), who provide a combination of 51 sessions. The practice also employs a practice nurse who works 24 hours a week and a full-time treatment room/enhanced nurse practitioner. Working alongside the GPs and nurses are two qualified healthcare assistants, a part-time clinical pharmacist and a phlebotomist. The administrative team comprises of a full-time practice manager, a secretary, an administration manager, a reception supervisor and 15 reception and administration staff.

The practice operates under a General Medical Services (GMS) contract and is commissioned by Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, maternity and midwifery services, treatment of disease disorder or injury and surgical procedures. Services provided also includes wound care, coil insertion, phlebotomy, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, ECG monitoring, travel clinic and a continence clinic.

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 20 July 2018

This practice is rated as good overall.

(Previous inspection: 21 November 2015 – Good)

The key questions are rated as:

Are services safe? – Good

Are services effective? – Good

Are services caring? – Good

Are services responsive? – Good

Are services well-led? - Good

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Belmont Health Centre on 17 May 2018 as part of our inspection programme.

At this inspection we found:

  • There were processes in place to manage risk. 
  • The practice routinely reviewed the effectiveness and appropriateness of the care it provided. It ensured that care and treatment was delivered according to evidence- based guidelines.
  • We found that completed clinical audits were driving positive outcomes for patients.
  • Although patients’ feedback highlighted issues with telephone access, the practice had acted to resolve this issue.
  • There was a strong focus on continuous learning and improvement at all levels of the organisation.
  • The practice was effective in flu immunisations for patients with a learning disability. Reasonable adjustments were put in place for those that had difficulty accessing the service.
  • The practice provided a weekly minor surgery service to all patients in the Harrow area.

The areas where the provider should make improvements are:

  • Review and amend the safeguarding children policy.
  • Take action to ensure that all staff receive formal sepsis training and complete regular update training in a timely manner.
  • Take action to ensure that water temperature checks at the branch surgery are carried out as per Legionella risk assessment recommendations.
  • Monitor the systems or processes for managing test results to ensure all requested test results have been viewed and actioned.
  • Continuously review exception reporting and take appropriate action where progress is not achieved as expected.
  • Continue to monitor effectiveness of new telephone system and take action where required.

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP

Chief Inspector of General Practice